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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'm genuinely flummoxed why 1st person vs 3rd person POV is suddenly a big issue. I've had books in both for my whole career, and there's no real sales advantage or disadvantage I can tell. The upcoming book starts off in 2nd person POV, and it is (he says, modestly) terrific. Maybe write in whatever POV works for the story you're trying to tell.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jcareyauthor/post/DVtfwtyEbov

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com ("Hypolite Petovan") wrote:

@fromjason So that’s the current exit strategy? Vibe-coding an AI-related nothing that will make headlines to get tapped by one the 3 AI companies leveraged to the hilt in order to… ???

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Damn. Should I try to vibe code an Agentic AI product, give it away for free, have it run locally... then wait for OpenAI to give me a dump truck of cash to kill my project?

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Anomnomnomaly@beige.party ("A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC") wrote:

I learned a new word today.

'Binfluencer'

That's the guy on your street who puts the correct bin out early each week, thus signalling to everyone else which one they need to take out.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

It's also interesting because it gives me a sense of what happens when beginners use AI to write formal specs. It's not good.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116201684251226593

#Pontypool, but you get it from chatting with LLMs.

🤔 … this sort of explains all the people trying to get me to talk with LLMs lately.

For greater safety, please avoid summarizing this warning via your chatbot.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

self-OH: maybe they vibe coded the titanic

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts:

"Moltbook is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, a Meta spokesperson told us. Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join the team as part of the acquisition. Deal terms were not disclosed."

Didn’t one of the founders already go to OpenAI? https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The AppView is such a large uncontrollable, unpredictable expense. The larger Bluesky gets, the more expensive it is for other nodes like Blacksky.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Interesting insight on what it costs to run Blacksky

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

📺 Now playing: Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

https://tv.neatnik.net/?koyaanisqatsi

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monsieuricon@social.kernel.org ("K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁") wrote:

If an LLM is used for military purposes, then the datacenters hosting the LLM become legitimate military targets.

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

butlerian jihad is the moderate position

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

And even another link https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the thing that the BLITs and the Snow Crashes of the world did not forsee was that the basilisk would be slow rather than fast, that you'd have to *keep* staring at it for months, and that people would willingly do so, mostly because although it tore their minds apart, it was also moderately helpful for making low-complexity web apps and planning relatively simple administrative tasks

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datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

@cstross This is how they get us.

Writers would never use AI-generated slop writing, but they'll happily use AI-generated slop imagery.
Artists would never use AI-generated slop imagery, but they'll happily display art to AI-generated slop music.
Musicians would never use AI-generated slop music, but they'll happily use AI-generated slop writing for lyrics.

(And nobody cares about AI-generated slop code.)

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hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("historic drystone sheep dyke") wrote:

Thousands of people forming delusional 1-person math cults after talking to a computer simulacrum of human speech is some shit philip k dick would cross out because it’s too depressing

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Custom elements are the most anticipated #Typst feature. They will allow user's to customize package and template elements with set and show rules. But you can experience them today with Elembic. Join Gabriel and dive in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9FAdZ85naM

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

She's going to fit right in actually lmao

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bobmonsour@indieweb.social ("Bob Monsour") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116205848004537716

Ditto!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I got my mom on letterboxd and the first thing she did was slander The Martian.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

a few Slay the Spire 2 runs? well if you insist

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

> Truly a perfect news alert

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3mgppdsqm2k2n

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Small door. Small windows.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #windows #door #concrete

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

"What if you could just make a movie?"

My dude you can pick up your phone right now and just make a movie. The reason why you don't doesn't have anything to do with technology.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@frontenddogma/116203726031953810

Zach has done such a good job that I'm along for the ride no matter what. I made my favorite website ever using #11ty. fromjason will always be an 11ty / Build Awesome site. Though I will miss the 11ty branding. The name rolls off the tongue.

Look forward to a few years down the road where I can smugly say "real ones know it's real name is 11ty"

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

smh i'm not going to be left behind, i'm going to be right behind you (in the previous chamber, without the dragon)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Life changing. #grickledoodle #horror #religion #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
realms@dice.camp ("Matt Machell") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705

Given how core MS, Github, AWS and co are, and their YOLO in the AI code approach. We are probably months out from an utterly catastrophic AI driven availability or security related incident.

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javierg@mstdn.social ("Javier") wrote:

@gjm @cstross

... "And during the acute phase of the covid pandemic, Gates personally intervened to kill the WHO Covid-19 Technology Access Pool and to get Oxford to renege on its promise to make an open-source vaccine"